YouTube Shares Surprising Statistics On 6th Birthday

YouTube's sixth birthday will be celebrated with a few huge milestones: the site has hit 3 billion views per day.

According to Google's blog, those 3 billion views a day represent a 50 percent increase over last year.

"That's the equivalent of nearly half the world's population watching a YouTube video each day, or every U.S. resident watching at least nine videos a day," Google wrote.

Uploads have spiked as well. Over 48 hours of video are uploaded to the site each minute, a 37 percent increase in the past six months, and a 100 percent increase from last year. Google attributes the growth to technological advances in the service.

"From faster processing of uploads to longer video lengths to the launch of self-service live stream capabilities to partners, we're constantly evolving to provide the best video sharing and viewing experience for you," it wrote.

ComScore ranks YouTube as the top online video property as of April, with over 142 million unique visitors, trailed by VEVO with over 55 million viewers. Facebook, in fourth, has over 46 million viewers.

YouTube announced recently that it would partner with Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros to provide full-length streaming movies soon.

Check out this chart from Google highlighting YouTube statistics:

Comments

[limpinalien]

01:24 AM on 05/29/2011

Here is one of those good ones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8

[politisophical]

04:16 PM on 05/27/2011

the defranco nation, TYT, 3dgameman, tedtalks... are WAY better than anything on TV..

[Andrew Wojtkowski]

11:17 AM on 05/27/2011

These are surprising statistics? Who is surprised by this?

Oh. Right. Headline baiting.

[mvs2527]

11:56 AM on 05/26/2011

Thats two days of cat videos every minute

[frank day]

09:06 AM on 05/26/2011

The new YouTube suks.

[SimonFromSydney]

08:36 PM on 05/25/2011

and thats a lot of hard drive space :)

[shutter]

12:16 PM on 05/25/2011

Interesting, although, the vast majority of footage uploaded is complete garbage. 47.9 hours of trash every minute. That's impressive if you're a garbage man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87UkNCWKvP0

go ahead, click that. be part of something, everyone's doing it.

[EasyZee]

12:03 AM on 05/26/2011

How is that any different from the complete garbage on television? I actually got rid of my tv about 3 years ago. The first 2 weeks without a tv, I had a bit of withdrawl syndrome. But after that, I am very happy without a tv. I don't think I will ever go back to the tv. When I visit my family or friends with tv's it doesn't interest me at all anymore. Television is quickly going the way of the dinosaur. If tv doesn't change soon, it will be as obsolete as the 8 track player in less than ten years. The DVR, or PVR, is a step in the right direction. You can save what you want to watch and forward commercials. But you tube is still way more convenient; I can watch what I want, when I want on you tube. Not with a tv. If I want to watch an episode of a show I grew up on, I can't just find it on a tv unless the broadcaster sticks it in the time slot. That is how tv must change to survive; Have their entire catalog available to watch whenever the viewer chooses to watch it, not be restricted to the chosen line up of shows.

[Andrew Wojtkowski]

11:18 AM on 05/27/2011

Did you get rid of your TV or Cable?

I got rid of my cable. I don't miss it at all. And that saves me like, $70/month.Even with Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Blockbuster in-store I save $40 a month. It's insane how much it costs... and you get garbage.